My experience.

[Mattb94]

New to this forum, would love some help if possible.

For the past month I've been having a bit of a bad time. It began with a bloated feeling, feeling full and generally lacking in appetite. I had a few loose stools around this time. A few days later I awoke with a complete feeling of tightness around my stomach and intestines and feeling pretty sick. No matter how I laid, I could not get comfortable. The days that followed I was up and down, stomach still felt very sensitive, but managed to eat small amounts. This has generally persisted over the past month, symptoms including-

-Persistent burping, without even eating food. Sometimes it is worsened after drinking tea or acidic foods.
-Tight (sometimes painful) feeling in stomach and intestines, at times with stomach gurgling
-lack of appetite
-tiredness, weakness
-gas and trapped wind
-A few toilet issues, constipation (due to lack of eating potentially), diarrhea has only occurred once or twice after stupidly deciding to eat some fried mozzarella sticks.
-asthma symptoms (I am asthmatic, feel like this has exacerbated it)
-general aches

I have been to the doctors, who gave me a general physical, requested a stool sample to check for h pylori. First came back negative, however I had been taking nexium a week and a half before which may have altered the result. I have since submitted a second sample, which I am waiting for the result for.

For some context, I am a 24 year old male from the UK. I only really started having issues with acid reflux after going to university 5 years ago. My thoughts are that I may have picked something like h pylori up whilst there, as sharing bottles and glasses is common practice at universities. Is it possible to only have mild symptoms for a period but have 'flare ups'?
Obviously this is all conjecture. I am a ball of stress at the moment, I've literally become housebound because of how much this experience is affecting me. I have a wife that I want to be there for but I'm a little useless at that at the moment. I apologise for the long post, I just wanted to vent at what my doctor believes this may be. Thank you.

[Helico_expert]

perhaps you should get a blood test. a negative blood test would mean you never had H. pylori, at least since the last few months.

a positive blood test result would mean you had been exposed before and further confirmation test needed.

[thomas.shillingford]

U need to do a breath test i have done stool samples and blood before and been negative....breath test is more accurate i found i was posotive